destruir
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See also: destruír
Catalan
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin dēstruere, with normal change of conjugation to -ir.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]destruir (first-person singular present destrueixo, first-person singular preterite destruí, past participle destruït)
- to destroy
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of destruir (third conjugation, with -eix-)
Related terms
[edit]Portuguese
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese destruir, destroir, from Latin dēstruere (“to destroy”) (probably an early borrowing), from dē + struō (“to put together”).
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]destruir (first-person singular present destruo, first-person singular preterite destruí, past participle destruído)
- (transitive) to ruin, devastate (proceed with the destruction of, cause the destruction of)
- (transitive) to undo
- (transitive) to break down
- (transitive) to annihilate, exterminate
- (transitive) to extinguish (make disappear)
- (transitive, figuratively) to upset, disturb
- (intransitive) to crush (reduce to nothing)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of destruir (irregular) (See Appendix:Portuguese verbs)
Further reading
[edit]- “destruir”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- “destruir”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Latin dēstruere.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /desˈtɾwiɾ/ [d̪esˈt̪ɾwiɾ], /destɾuˈiɾ/ [d̪es.t̪ɾuˈiɾ]
Audio (Colombia): (file) - Rhymes: -iɾ
- Syllabification: des‧truir, des‧tru‧ir
Verb
[edit]destruir (first-person singular present destruyo, first-person singular preterite destruí, past participle destruido)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of destruir (See Appendix:Spanish verbs)
Selected combined forms of destruir
These forms are generated automatically and may not actually be used. Pronoun usage varies by region.
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1983–1991) “destruir”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critic Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
Further reading
[edit]- “destruir”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28
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